How Sarah Palin Embodies the Countercultural Evangelical Ethos

Thats some educational piece of writing!!!

vegetarian lifestyle of AL 8:43AM December 17, 2011

Nice try. Isn't that a really derogatory word to use. It is insulting with hardly no redeeming value (except that it is used in media all the time with a "lighter weight" to describe someone who goes against the grain/swims agains the stream/doesn't go along to get along/opposes the popular trend.

But, here's a point that bobbie from OR may not be aware of;however, from the tone of his voice, he may be one of those that would not care about this factual point or feel any remorse that he published something that is factually misleading as long as the verbage pushed forward a certain story line.

At the very beginning of bobbie from OR's post he says, "This is Sarah Palin's own word to describe herself.. " The fact is that this is the word that certain opposition types in the Republican party and outside the party used to describe her possible damaging role (in their opinion) in last year's campaign.

Of course, she then adopted it, but it was not her word to describe herself. That factoid kind of removes the point from bobbie's point and changes the direction. Many groups and/or persons down through history have become known for a name that their opposition gave to them. Frequently, they have then adopted it and worn it with a sense of purpose.

I ams sure if one would care to read the book (out of fairness and openmindedness), one would discover what words she does use to describe herself.

Have a great day.

Chuck of NC 8:02PM October 20, 2009

I did not hear all of Sarah Palin's resignation speech, but what I did hear was significant, enlightening, and neglected by the press. It reveals a lot about the woman and her views.

Certainly, she understood well the politically motivated suits she is involved in which is reported and made to be the main focus in most reports and criticisms.

But what is not reported is that she plainly said that she was not going to remain in office pretending to hold office and carrying out her duties on the public dime while fighting for her polictical life and engaging in other activities like many other politicians do. Think John Edwards and President Obama who barely served fractions of their elective federal terms while running for President. There are many others that could be named since it seems to be a prevalent practice for those determined to live on public funds to advance their personal goals while failing to fully attend to the responsibilities of their office.

I think, in many respects, Sarah has always been simply the hockey mom who wanted to bring change and not a business as usual politician. It appears she still feels that way. Surviving as a politician was not her primary pursuit. It was not something she lusted after. The office. The power. The control. The legacy. She entered the arena with that mindset. She left with that mindset. The assasination of her family and the crude and cruel crucifixion of her life by the "well-meaning and civil" members of the political left was not what she signed up for. I admire her because she does NOT measure success by how long she can remain under the strain of such political and personal torture for the politically vicarious pleasure of the partisan spectators and manipulators. It is a sad commentary upon ourselves and our culture that a significant percent of the public measures success by those terms. They are like spectators in the old Roman coliseum calling for more blood and booing the gladiator that is unwilling to satisfy their most base demands. It is a false, straw standard to which we have descended, but to which the gladiator is not bound by any moral principle to follow. She is bound only to her own principles, weapons, and chosen field of battle.

The words to which I allude were a small part of her ramblings, but they revealed a devotion to a higher standard, an inwardly motivated humanity, and the courage to continue on the "road less traveled."

I wish her well and God's speed...and to her family.

Good luck to the rogue.

Charles Hucks of NC 11:18PM October 03, 2009

Sarah Palin is holding a position that is uniquely hers. She is the only one that will publicly say she is for using coal, drilling for oil, and natural gas. I don't recall her stand on Nuclear power plants, but I have a feeling she would not be against nuclear power plants.

I have, for a long, time tried to figure out why we are prevented from using our own energy. It is common knowledge that we have enough energy materials to last for the next 150 to 200 years, by then we will have already switched to a hydrogen economy. Is it the environmentalists, I don’t see how they can be so powerful, they are too few in numbers.

It seems more likely that we should follow the money. Who benefits from us using foreign energy instead of our own even when our own would be cheaper and would help this our country economically.

Imagine if some foreign countries would pay bribes to a large number of Washington politicians, would that make drilling for oil more difficult? Suppose that same group of foreign countries gave money to support the environmentalists and other wacko groups. Maybe they would support groups that would be willing to sue and obstruct anyone trying to drill for oil. Maybe they would throw large sums of money at lawyers to obstruct any effort to drill for oil in this country. Would all the above make the oil companies unhappy after all they can charge more for oil under the current structure.

The Cap & Trade is another example, we can’t be sure that global warming is true. All the data found on the internet, that is not politically motivated, says it has been getting colder for the last 10 years and that co2 does not cause the earth temperature to get warmer. In fact we are now learning that co2 is good for the earth and helps to make food grow better. Would you want to be one degree warmer or one degree colder? I'll bet you can’t even tell the difference.

One other thing, Sarah knows that we can’t spend our way out of a recession. Even you know that if you run out of money spending more on credit cards for every frivolous thing will not make it better, you will just wind up with more debt. Of course, the government just raises your taxes so they don’t care. Why do you think that the average pay for civilian government employees is double the average for the rest of the country and the benefits are also twice as good.

tfagan of SC 6:48PM October 03, 2009